This map isn't part of any series, but we have other Iowa maps that you might want to check out.

This birdseye map of Des Moines, Iowa[gmap] was made in the second full year of Ruger's mapmaking career, and it's already exhibiting the touches that would define his style for the next 20 years; a handsome composition with an modest but ornate and entirely unobtrusive collar, fantastic water effects, and a mastery of creative interpretive “bending” of the rules of perspective.. It would seem as though he burst into the scene and hit the ground running; like Athena - fully-formed, and with his considerable talents already actualized.

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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth:an Urban HistoryA documentary film about the profound ways in which the American city changed in the 20th Century. Told through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis.